Unicorn Factory Lisboa

📍 Is international expansion on your roadmap? Discover how the Scaling Up can help! The International Expansion & Strategy session was guided by José Salgado (Co-Founder & CGO at BIZAY), Ricardo Macedo (Co-Founder & COO at Barkyn), Daniel Chalfon (Astella), and Luís Roquette Geraldes (Head of Team Genesis | Morais Leitão & Partner at Morais Leitão). Scaleups had access to: 🌎 Testimonials from the speakers regarding their strategies and processes of internationalization 🌎 Guidance for expanding to Brazil and succeeding in the market 🌎 Legal insights on international expansion Fostering a strong Scaling Up community is also one of Unicorn Factory Lisboa's top priorities. Would you like to be part of this community? Apply for the next cohort ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dJSq7Emq #unicornfactorylisboa #notamyth #scalingup #scaleups #growth

A few weeks ago, 24 amazing high school students graduated from our 2nd Innovation Summer School bootcamp in Porto, with the invaluable support of our Global Youth Entrepreneurship Partner SONAE. Congratulations to our young innovators! 🤩 SONAE and MC challenged our students to dive into challenges by focusing on customer-centric innovation and creating innovative solutions to enhance convenience, promote healthier options, and deliver personalized loyalty experiences. The success of the Innovation Summer School is a testament to the collaborative spirit of our partners. A heartfelt thanks to the fantastic Founders and Entrepreneurs who joined us during this bootcamp: Veronica Costa Orvalho (Didimo), Álvaro Samagaio (Founder Tales & Shutdown Podcast), David Barroso (Maven.Pet), and Ivanoel Rodrigues (Hortee), as well as to our amazing location partners FEP U. Porto – Economics and Management and SITIO.pt. Lastly, we are privileged to have esteemed partners such as José de Mello and SONAE as our Global Youth Entrepreneurship Partners, TEKEVER as our Program Partner, and Hudson Lab Ventures and FUTURE for their role in empowering the next generation of young entrepreneurs.🚀 #unicornfactorylisboa #unicorn #innovationsummerschool #summerschool #summercamp #youth #lisbon #innovation #entrepreneurship

🔥 A guide on mastering Hyper Growth Sales - we've got you covered! Unicorn Factory Lisboa's Scaling Up Program consists of several essential modules to support scaleup founders and their teams. One of them is sales, which was highlighted recently, featuring the experience and knowledge of Guilherme de Oliveira Pinheiro (VP of Sales at Talkdesk) and Chris Elsheikhi (Fractional Marketing and Sales Leader who has made $500M+ Revenue Growth). Here are some topics covered in this module: 👉 How to manage and build a sales team; 👉 B2B sales; 👉 Building a repeatable Go To Market Function that can scale to over $100M; 👉 New Market Expansion; 👉 Common mistakes to look out for and how to avoid them; 👉 What high-performance GTM looks like for $5M + Do you want to be part of this program ❓ ➡ Apply for Scaling Up's next Cohort: https://lnkd.in/dJSq7Emq #unicornfactorylisboa #notamyth #scalingup #scaleups #immersiveupskilling

Do you have an indie games studio?  Unicorn Factory Lisboa is taking a 🇵🇹 Portuguese delegation to Indie Dev Day in Barcelona! 🎮 Gamiberica, a joint Iberian initiative between Unicorn Factory Lisboa's Gaminghub, Associação de Produtores de Videojogos Portugueses, Indie X and IndieDevDay, is looking for independent games studios to join this group and bring the best of what Portugal has to offer to this event. Applications are open until July 23 here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dCxgEzPq #unicronfactorylisboa #gaming #gaminghub #indiedevday #PortugalGames

Last week, our Strategic Partner Galp organized its Innovation Day to discuss the importance of innovation in Galp and in its business growth. ⚡️🔥 Unicorn Factory Lisboa collaborated with Galp to host an exclusive networking event at Praça in Hub Criativo do Beato, with over 150 founders, leaders, innovation partners, and representatives from European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). 🤝🚀 #unicornfactorylisboa #strategicpartner #partner

With the extraordinary support of José de Mello, we have graduated our 1st cohort of 30 High-School students in our Summer Innovation School! Congratulations to our young innovators! 🤩 José de Mello has a long-standing tradition of investing in society and the Group is committed to being a transformative force in Portuguese society through education and entrepreneurship. As Global Youth Entrepreneurship Partner, José de Mello was actively involved with the 1st bootcamp of the Innovation Summer School, where our innovators tackled key issues facing the education system: Educational Inequality, Future Skills and Knowledge, and The School of the Future. The Innovation Summer School initiative also counts with SONAE as Global Youth Entrepreneurship Partner, as well as TEKEVER as Program Partner. We are also grateful to Hudson Lab Ventures and our founders for working with us to inspire and empower the next generation of young entrepreneurs. 🚀 #unicornfactorylisboa #unicorn #innovationsummerschool #summerschool #summercamp #youth #lisbon #innovation #entrepreneurship

The Gang, a member of Unicorn Factory Lisboa's GamingHub, has been recognized as one of the Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work®️ Portugal! The Gang is a development studio renowned for creating immersive gaming experiences on platforms like Roblox and Fortnite, connecting brands with millions of players. They have unparalleled expertise in branded UGC activations, having created bespoke experiences for top brands like Amazon, Warner Bros., and Vans. It's truly inspiring to see this achievement within our community. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition!

The Future Innovators Program Online Academy winner is Catarina Lima from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa! 🚀 Catarina was the best qualified in the 1st phase of the program, which consisted of an online academy that addressed real business issues and challenges through practical videos made with experts and founders from the ecosystem. 👏 Congratulations! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The next phase of this program consists of a pre-acceleration program starting next Fall. Stay tuned! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to the partners 🙌  Claranet (Sérgio Silvestre), José de Mello (João Mil-Homens & Joana Dias da Cunha), SONAE ( Daniel Fonseca), Associação DNS.PT (Inês Esteves), Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, for joining this adventure! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #unicornfactorylisboa #futureinnovators #futureinnovatorsprogram #youth #unicorn

Musiversal closes 2.8 million euros round 👀 The platform helps artists produce music in less time and at less cost. It already has +300,000 minutes of monthly music sessions and tripled the number of subscribers last year. The investment will allow the scaleup to scale its operations and improve its service offerings.💰 The round was led by Iberis Capital, with the participation of LINCE CAPITAL and Shilling VC, investment partners of the Scaling up Program. Congratulations! https://lnkd.in/dRK9ASEc Get in touch with them here ➡ https://lnkd.in/gAn5dUb #unicornfactorylisboa #unicorn #scalingup #scaelup #startupnews #investment #vc

We welcomed the 5th cohort of the Scaling Up program! Leaders, thinkers, dreamers, and doers came together to kickstart another incredible growth journey at the Summer Scaling Up Day. We heard stories of an exit with NUNO Prego Ramos (CEO, Valvian / CEO, CellmAbs), learned about success stories of partnerships between corporate companies and scaleups with Vasco L Pipa (Innovation Analyst, Via Verde) and Carla Mendonça Tavares (Head of Renewables & Commercial Innovation Center, Galp) and we discussed what it's like to build a unicorn from Portugal with Pedro Monteiro de Barros (General Manager, Remote), Vasco Pedro (CEO, Unbabel), Joao Laginha Martins 文祖安 (Head of Platforms, Indico Capital Partners), Alexandre Barbosa (Managing Partner, Faber) and Ricardo Mesquita (Managing Director, Endeavor). 🤝 Thank you to our 140 C-level mentors, experts, and all our partners, including strategic partners Banco BPI, Grupo Brisa, Cuatrecasas, Delta Cafés, Fidelidade, Galp, Google, and PwC Portugal, for their support. 👏 Congratulations on the graduation of cohort #3, BHOUT, Enline Energy Solutions, iLoF, KIT-AR, Maven.Pet, Nutrium & OSCAR. And the best of luck to the cohort #5, ListKit, Modatta, 360hyper, Vawlt, Bounce, Kinderpedia, Inductiva.AI, and Eleos Insurance!